Cathedrals were multi-generational projects and they employed paid, skilled workmen. Guilds, under contracts, hundreds of them, the tasks being passed on from father to son.
The Medieval cathedrals were first monumental-sized architecturally sophisticated, public structures in the history of the world erected by free men and not slaves.
150 posted on 04/15/2019 12:57:30 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
(The pity and indignation.)